Technical Difficulties
Oct. 23rd, 2004 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatYeah, I know I just posted recently, but I thought of a few more things I wanted to say.
Is it too much to ask that the Internet actually work the way it's supposed to? Just recently, I ended up posting the same comment eight or so times to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
revme's livejournal. And Hotmail, which had actually been working all right in the past few days, decided to reverse my messages again. It was easily fixed, but I don't know if the problem will happen again. I certainly wouldn't doubt it.
Speaking of the Internet, can anyone explain the appeal of Friendster and similar services? I mean, I'm on there, but all I've ever done was add people I already knew from elsewhere. Other people seem to love it, though, so I wonder if I'm missing something. As far as meeting people goes, it strikes me as much less effective than livejournal, or, for that matter, just an old-fashioned mailing list. At least in those places you can find out more about a person than what can be found in a brief list of interests and other people they know. Maybe the Friendster appeal is more of a collecting thing than an actually-meeting-people thing. I don't know.
By the way, I'm not a big fan of the fall. I'm usually kind of depressed around this time of year. The cold weather and shorter days probably have something to do with that. I didn't realize how cold it was going to be yesterday, and I ended up walking around Great Adventure in just a T-shirt and sweatshirt (on my upper regions, that is; I'm not implying that I wasn't wearing pants {g}), which wasn't very comfortable. Cold weather requires too much preparation just to go outside.
Is it too much to ask that the Internet actually work the way it's supposed to? Just recently, I ended up posting the same comment eight or so times to
revme's livejournal. And Hotmail, which had actually been working all right in the past few days, decided to reverse my messages again. It was easily fixed, but I don't know if the problem will happen again. I certainly wouldn't doubt it.Speaking of the Internet, can anyone explain the appeal of Friendster and similar services? I mean, I'm on there, but all I've ever done was add people I already knew from elsewhere. Other people seem to love it, though, so I wonder if I'm missing something. As far as meeting people goes, it strikes me as much less effective than livejournal, or, for that matter, just an old-fashioned mailing list. At least in those places you can find out more about a person than what can be found in a brief list of interests and other people they know. Maybe the Friendster appeal is more of a collecting thing than an actually-meeting-people thing. I don't know.
By the way, I'm not a big fan of the fall. I'm usually kind of depressed around this time of year. The cold weather and shorter days probably have something to do with that. I didn't realize how cold it was going to be yesterday, and I ended up walking around Great Adventure in just a T-shirt and sweatshirt (on my upper regions, that is; I'm not implying that I wasn't wearing pants {g}), which wasn't very comfortable. Cold weather requires too much preparation just to go outside.
